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coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.

The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.

Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.

To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7.

One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.

Overshadowing. [R.]

A paddock, or toad. Padow pipe. (Bot.) See Paddock pipe, under Paddock.

A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.

A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use.

To endow again.

Hubbub; uproar. [Vulgar]

Uproarious. [Vulgar]

The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect.

ace, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1.

The quality or state of being shadowy.

A faint representation; an adumbration. There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. Tylor.

Shadowy; vague. [Obs.] Hooker.

Having no shadow.

Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak.

for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose. Sir W. Scott.